Greg Lester

I'm very happy with the feedback I received and I am very motivated by it to continue working hard and putting in the extra effort to submit an excellent assignment. I'm looking forward to further assignments, because it gives me the opportunity to do in depth research in areas that I would normally not delve into.

Last week was very successful, all in all I finished 2 tracks, released one on a big label, started 4 collaborations with very talented artists and worked on my improving keyboard skills and theoretical knowledge. I also sent loads of promo emails which I haven't really done a lot in the past. The two tracks I finished still need to be mixed and mastered but one of them is ready to send to the manager of a big rapper with whom I have collaborated before. The second track is ready to be sent to label and promo channels to try to release them on there. On friday the 23rd of september I released a track on Tribal Trap, they have 95.9k followers on soundcloud and over 550.000 subscribers on youtube so that was a huge opportunity to gain some exposure and legitimacy. My track also got reposted by a lot of other big labels which I look up to and I hope this is the chance to be able to ask them if I can send them mails to be able to release on their labels and thst they'll ag...

I picked the role producer because I enjoy giving feedback to the artist and adding my creative input to the recording session to make it better and help communicate between the artist and the recording engineer to make the session as smooth as possible and get the most out of the artist. A producer is responsible for overseeing the musical product and to communicate with the artist, give them advice on different creative aspects of the track and particularly help during pre-production in terms of trying to figure out in which direction the song will go and what could be made better in the track before even heading to the studio. In the studio the producer is the middle man between recording engineer and artist and help make the recording session efficient by coaching the artist, helping with crucial decision-making, giving feedback and proposing new ideas that can quickly be included into the session. Producers need to be able to communicate with the artists so they are require...

Woke up at 10 this morning to pack my laptop, usb etc. eat a quick breakfast and get ready to the studio. Unlike last time I was prepared for the studio session today, I had my list of what I needed, goals for the day, what I was gonna do first and most importantly I had enough time! First I went to the tech hatch to get some mics then I set them up while Tom got the drums ready. Everything went pretty smooth until I encountered a small problem in logic which I fixed itself after a couple of minutes. We recorded for about two hours and it went very well! After the session I saved the project to my usb and collected the mics, rolled the cables together and brought them back to the tech hatch. It was a very rewarding experience because for some reason I thought that we wouldn't be able to make everything work but it did and I was quite happy about that. The whole point of the studio session was to record a lot of fills and chops for a sample library and the second reason wa...

So I booked the PRSF studio on friday but since i only had 45 minutes worth of booking credits left it was kinda a letdown because I was stupid enough not to have a pre-prepared logic project with the stems I wanted to mix on it. Basically I had to import all the stems from my usb into logic and that took a long time... The good thing is I listened to mix 1 version of the track and wrote down a lot of stuff that I needed to focus on and now I know that before I go into a studio I have to make a list with my goals that I want to reach and the preparations I have to make beforehand so I can make the best use out of the time I have and be efficient. I guess that was one of those learning by doing experiences.. Today I pretty much finished 2 songs and emailed one of them to the manager of a rapper with whom I have previousely worked with. The other song is a colaboration with some great friends of mine: Tom (drummer, Nick (vocalist+guitar player) and Andrew (bass+guitar player) . ...

Today I was pretty productive... I had lectures in the morning and learned some cool new stuff and as soon as I got out of the last lecture I went to the "Pro Control" studio which will had booked. It was a bit daunting at first because I always feel like I'm gonna break something but the stuff is sturdier than it looks ^^ Anyway while Will mixed his kick and sub I practised my scales on the keyboard after that I hooked my laptop up to the speakers and checked my mix of the track I'm working on right now (I'd post a link but I don't want to show it to anyone yet). I noticed that the snare was way to loud and not sitting correctly in the mix, the risers are too overpowering at the end of the buildup, the bass noise in the buildup needs to have a highpass filter with an automation controlling the frequency envelope and last but not least that the transition after the drop is great but I continue going into the main verse which I shouldn't do but rather ju...